Preaching Today Illustrationshttp://PreachingToday.com/illustrations/Relevant sermon illustrations to help you connect with your congregation and improve your preaching.en-usNovember 7, 2009Copyright 2009, Christianity Today Internationalhttp://www.christianitytoday.com/help/features/rss.htmlhttp://www.christianitytoday.com/lyris/rss/feedicon.gifA service of ChristianityToday.compreachingtoday/illustrationshttp://feedburner.google.comChurch Gives Away Half-Million Dollars in Economic CrisisBrian Lowery, managing editor, PreachingToday.com; source: "Church gives fresh meaning to 'offering' plate," www.cnn.com (5-18-09)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=UZa_kodeCXM:fUCzJ9IgCP0:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83855Statistics on Our Incessant Need to Check EmailAnne R. Carey and Sam Ward, "USA Today Snapshots: When do you start fretting about messages?" (viewed 5-28-09)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=aULDM3e9BQs:5dujTYW7xYY:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83854St. Francis's Extreme Embrace of Poverty Mark Galli, (Baker Books, 2009), pp. 118-119<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=jF0_gXH7ZEM:0BPxVzIwXRU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83856Luxury Cruise Turns SourCraig Brian Larson, chief editor of PreachingToday.com<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=0IkEaxqF59w:M3AjqZHm2GM:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83857Cynicism: Frostbite of the SoulScott Sernau, (InterVarsity Press, 1987), p. 109; submitted by David Tinberg, Berwyn, Illinois<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=Or-nn_fycsc:FM4swIgdBVk:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83867Woman in Coma Hears the Prayers for Her RecoveryAce Collins, (Zondervan, 2009), pp. 207-208<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=CaAxZKQPxUY:XLwqn6crdYs:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83868Crying Out for "Those Nobody Wants"Mark Buchanan, "Messy, Costly, Dirty Ministry," (5-15-09)<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=aUmt3fgZ6YM:XL7B7-9aaQU:yIl2AUoC8zA"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://preachingtoday.com/83869Subscribe to PreachingToday.comThe latest updates to PreachingToday.com delivered to your inbox.<div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://feeds.christianitytoday.com/~f/preachingtoday/illustrations?a=IUrVUwwS"><img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/preachingtoday/illustrations?d=41" border="0"></img></a> </div>http://www.christianitytoday.com/lyris/subscribe/ptcom.htmlNovember 7, 2009